A list of riddles to test your wits

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Questions

1. What has to be broken before you can use it?
2. I’m tall when I’m young, and I’m short when I’m old. What am I?
3. The person who makes it has no need of it. The person who buys it doesn’t use it. The person who uses it never sees it. What is it?
4. The more of me you take, the more you leave behind. What am I?
5. I’m light as a feather, yet the strongest person can’t hold me for long. What am I?
6. What can travel around the world while staying in its corner?
7. What has a head, a tail, but no body?
8. I am always in front of you but can’t be seen. What am I?
9. What has one eye but can’t see?
10. What can fill a room but takes up no space?
11. I am not alive, but I can grow. I don’t have lungs, but I need air. I don’t have a mouth, and yet I drown in water. What am I?
12. What can be seen in the middle of March and April that can’t be seen at the beginning or end of either month?
13. What begins with an “e” and only contains one letter?
14. What goes up but never comes down?
15. What word is pronounced the same if you take away four of its five letters?
16. What is so fragile that saying its name breaks it?
17. What five-letter word has one left when two letters are removed?
18. What do you bury when it’s alive and dig up when it’s dead?
19. What can’t talk but will reply when spoken to?
20. What do you throw out when you want to use it but take in when you don’t want to use it?
21. What do you lose the moment you share it?
22. What never walks but always runs?
23. The more there is the less you see. What is it?
24. If eleven plus two equals one, what does nine plus six equate to?
25. What are the next 2 letters in this riddle? O T T F F S S E
26. What can you hold in your right hand, but never in your left hand?
27. What question can you never say yes to?
28. What two things can you never eat for breakfast?
29. What do Alexander the Great and Winnie the Pooh have in common?
30. Before Mount Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain in the world?
31. A plane crashed between the border of France and Belgium. Where were the survivors buried?
32. Poor people have it. Rich people need it. If you eat it you die. What is it?
33. What runs, but never walks. Murmurs, but never talks. Has a bed, but never sleeps. And has a mouth, but never eats?
34. Spelled forward, I’m what you do every day; spelled backward, I’m something you hate. What am I?
35. Sara has four daughters, and each of her daughters has a brother. How many children does Sara have?
36. A man goes out in heavy rain with nothing to protect him from it. His hair doesn’t get wet. How does he do that?

Answers

1. An egg
2. A candle
3. A coffin
4. Footsteps
5. Your breath
6. A postage stamp
7. A coin
8. The future
9. A needle
10. Light
11. Fire
12. The letter ‘R’
13. A envelope
14. Your age
15. Queue
16. Silence
17. Stone
18. A plant
19. A echo
20. An Anchor
21. A secret
22. A river
23. Darkness
24. Three (hours on a clock)
25. N and T. Each letter represents the first letter of each number one to eight.
26. Your left hand
27. Are you asleep?
28. Lunch and dinner
29. Their middle names
30. Mount Everest. It just wasn’t discovered yet.
31. They weren’t. Survivors dont need to be buried.
32. Nothing
33. A river
34. Live
35. Five. Each daughter has the same brother.
36. He’s bald